Poultry-fountain.



PATENTED MAR. 24 1903.

No. 723,651. v

' s. E. OOGSWELL.

POULTRY FOUNTAIN.

AP?L1OATION FILED NOV. 18, 19QZ.

no MODEL.

Witne UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

SAMUEL E. COGSWELL, OF PRETTY PRAIRIE, KANSAS.

POULTRY-FOUNTAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 723,651, dated March 24, 1903. Application filed November 18, 1902. Serial No. 131,868. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, SAMUEL E. COGSWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pretty Prairie, in the county of Reno and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poultry-Fountains, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for supplying water to poultry.

The object is to provide an automaticallyacting fountain which will retain a relatively large body of water and deliver it to an open vessel at intervals, according as it is withdrawn by the fowls. Devices of numerous sorts have been heretofore proposed for this purpose; but the object of the present invention is to provide a method of manufacture and a resulting article which shall have incident to them a minimum of cost and at the same time be available for attaining all of the purposes that are aimed at when employing these devices.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a watering device embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a bottom end view of .the main water-receptacle. Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the receptacle in the position occupied by it after it has been filled and at the time it is being inverted and placed in the water-delivering vessel.

In the drawings, A. indicates the body part of the water-holding vessel. In order to insure the least possible cost in the construction of the article, I so arrange and relate the parts that use can be made of the cheapest kinds of tin vessels. The central portion of such a vessel or can is shown at a, it having the permanently-fastened cover a and'the bottom a An aperture is formed at a in' this bottom ,and in the aperture there is placed a delivery-tube B, which is secured to the bottom wall by solder. i

C O are legs or supports for the can or vessel, they consisting of pieces of wire or light rods of a length somewhat greater than the delivery-tube B. They are secured in place by solder-or equivalent fastening at c.

F indicates the waterdelivering vessel, which is placed below the main holder A. In manufacturing these devices I prefer to furnish as part of each implement a tin saucerlike or shallow dish, such as'indicated in the drawings; but it'will be seen that the main water-retaining vessel A is of such character that the user can employ dishes or pans of any of many styles and accomplish all the desired purposes The principal requisite is that the delivering vessel F should be of a depth somewhat greater than the distance from the bottom f 'to the lower end of V the deliveringtube B. Q

The manner of using the device I'have described will be readily understood. When it is desired to water the fowls, the vessel A is inverted and filled with water through the tube B. A body of water should also be put into the delivering vessel F. Then by placing the finger in the way shown at F, so as to close the lower end of the tube B, the can or vessel A can be turned over and put into the position in the pan F shown in Fig. 1. Thereafter the water will be deliveredfrom the upper vessel A to the lower one in the wellknown way-that is to say, when sufficient water has been withdrawn from the pan F to bring the level of the remainder to the plane of the lower end of the tube B or slightly below it air'will enter through the tube B into the vessel A and displace part of the water therefrom, which will continue until the surface of the water in the pan F again rises above the lower end of the tube B. When it reaches said end, the tube will be sealed against the entrance of any more air.

As above stated, I am aware of the fact that other devices of this classhave been madeor proposed; but I believe myself to be the first to have devised a simple and economical fountain 'of the sort set forth.

By having the canister or vessel A, its de- ICO The herein-describedautomatically-acting poultry-watering device having a pan F of relatively large diameter and a canister A of shorter diameter, having air-tight sides and i In testimony whereof I affix my signature top a and provided with legs 0, shorter than in presence of two witnesses. the depth of the pan, and with a reduced tu- Q bular escape-tube B, the pan F supporting AMUEL COGSWELL' the canister and being entirely detachable Witnesses: I therefrom, said parts being constructed and E. A. ROBINSON,

arranged substantially as set forth. J 0. TIMES. 

